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* Film: Mehrjui retrospective
in Washington
* TV: Iranian TV since
1979
* History: Shedding light
on Achamenid life
* History: Story behind
Iran's largest meteorite
* Literature: Pushkin at
200
* Exhibit: Art & fantasy
* Play: Iran in the 1940s
* Film: Apple of father's eye
* Literature: Fereydoun Moshiri
honored
* Film: Samira Makhmalbaf's
Strange Fruit
* Music: Swedish award
for Bani-etemad
* Music: Afghani music
* Art: Shirin Neshat, New
York
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* Romanic classical music in Tehran
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Major feature on Shahin Farhat's classical music
festival at the Niavaran cultural center, covering the romanic period ...
FULL TEXT
IN PERSIA
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* Mehrjui retrospective in Washington, DC
Dariush Mehrjui's Films - A retrospective :
The Pear Tree - Friday February 5, 1999, 7:00 PM, Sunday February
7, 1999, 2:00 PM
The Cycle - Friday February 12, 1999, 7:00 PM
The Cow - Sunday February 14, 1999, 2:00 PM
Hamoon - Friday February 19, 1999, 7:00 PM
The Tenants - Sunday February 21, 1999, 2:00 PM
Sara - Friday February 26, 1999, 7:00 PM
The School We Went To - Saturday February 27, 1999, 2:00 PM
Leila - Sunday February 28, 1999, 2:00 PM
Freer's Meyer Auditorium, Jefferson Drive at 12th Street, SW, Washington
DC -- 202-357-4880 Admission: Free - two per person - one hour before program
begins Info: 202-357-4880 Details:
Dariush Mehrjui His film have been banned by both the Shah, and the
Islamic Republic, but film critics in Iran recently voted directory Dariush
Mehrjui on eof the country's greatest filmmakers. This retrospective is
organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and is presented in corporation
with Farabi Cinema Foundation, Tehran. All films are in Persian with English
Subtitles.
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* Iranian TV since 1979
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - An interesting look at the changes in Iranian
TV programs since the revolution ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIN
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* Shedding light on Achamenid life
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Translationms of tablets found at Persepolis give
details of Achamenid life ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* The story behind Iran's largest meteorite
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Hundred-twenty-year-old document tells how a large
meteorite crashed near Varamin southwest of Tehran ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Pushkin at 200
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Feature on the 200th birthday anniversary of the
great Russian writer, Alexander Pushkin... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Art & fantasy
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Parvaneh Etemadi's fantastic art work goes on
display at the Niavaran Cultural Center ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Theater: Iran in the 1940s
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Golab Adineh's paly "Shabi dar Tehran"
(A night in Tehran), takes us back to the 1940s ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Apple of father's eye
December 1998, (E-Run magazine) - Rotten Apples is a remarkable new
film by the three-year-old daughter of Iranian Utter Genius (and filmmaker)
Mohsen "Khatami-is-Gandhi" Makhmalbaf. Samira Makhmalbaf is following
her father's footsteps by achieving genius status with the liberal do-gooder
white folk who get to see these films before the natives do. Samira says
that she has nothing to say because she is only eighteen and wants a lollipop
or a Cannes award ... FULL
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* Fereydoun Moshiri honored
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A collection of Fereydoun Moshiri's poems, "Jashn
Naameh-ye Moshiri," has been completed by Ali Dehbashi and delivered
to the printers ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Strange Fruit
December 11, 1998, (The Independent) - Meet Samira. She's a director
from Iran, the new world capital of film. She's 18 years old. Samira Makhmalbaf
skips down the street, swinging her bag in the wind, cocky as a ferret.
I tell her how much I like her first film, The Apple. "Why?"
She stops and stares at me, aggressively. I haven't a clue what to say.
"See, people interview me, and expect me to answer things so profoundly
even though I'm only 18 and a half. And I ask you a simple question, and
you can't answer it."... FULL TEXT
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* Swedish award for Bani-etemad
TEHARN, (Hamshahri) - A Swedish cultural organization will award filmmaker
Rakhshan Bani-etamd for her exceptional work in the field of art and culture
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TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Afghani music
TEHARN, (Hamshahri) - A Swedish cultural organization will award filmmaker
Rakhshan Bani-etamd for her exceptional work in the field of art and culture
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